The novel that secured Box’s win, Endangered, was released in 2015 and is the fifteenth novel starring the fictional Wyoming game warden and his family, and reached as high as #3 on the New York Times bestsellers list under the Hardcover Fiction category.
We offer a huge CONGRATULATIONS to C.J. Box, who absolutely deserves to take home the trophy–which in this case is a nifty bronze sculpture of a cowboy on horseback.
The Western Heritage Awards, hosted by the National Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma, is designed to “celebrate the legacy [and] great works by those who contribute to the understanding and appreciation of the American West,” and will be shown as a live webcast on Saturday, April 18, at 7:00pm CT (8:00pm ET) on the Wrangler Network. You can watch the awards show for free, here.
Congrats again to C.J., and if you haven’t already don’t forget to pick up a copy of his latest Joe Pickett novel, Off The Grid, which came out earlier this year.
UPDATE 4/17
Here’s a tweet from C.J. himself, showin off his new hardware!
Accepting theWestern Heritage Award for Best Novel Award at the National Cowboy Museum. #WesternHeritageAwards pic.twitter.com/tcAC0rkaeY
— C.J. Box (@cjboxauthor) April 17, 2016